Workersâ Defense Committee
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The Workers' Defense Committee (KOR) was established in Poland in 1976 by dissident intellectuals. It emerged after thousands of striking workers were attacked and jailed by authorities. The KOR provided support to the families of imprisoned workers, offering legal and medical aid, and disseminating information through an underground network. In 1979, it published a Charter of Workers' Rights. The KOR's activities were instrumental in the formation of the independent trade union Solidarity in 1980, which became a significant opposition movement against the communist government.1
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- Jerzy Andrzejewski
âŠof the cofounders of the Workersâ Defense Committee (KOR), from which eventually grew the anticommunist trade union Solidarity, outlawed in 1981. Andrzejewski also coedited Zapis (1977â81), a literary magazine publishing dissident writers. Andrzejewskiâs novels CiemnoĆci kryjÄ ziemiÄ (1957; The Inquisitors) and Bramy raju (1960; The Gates of Paradise) present modernâŠ
Read MoreâŠof the cofounders of the Workersâ Defense Committee (KOR), from which eventually grew the anticommunist trade union Solidarity, outlawed in 1981. Andrzejewski also coedited Zapis (1977â81), a literary magazine publishing dissident writers. Andrzejewskiâs novels CiemnoĆci kryjÄ ziemiÄ (1957; The Inquisitors) and Bramy raju (1960; The Gates of Paradise) present modernâŠ
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Tadeusz MazowieckiâŠhe forged links with the Workersâ Defense Committee, which protected anticommunist labour activists in Poland from government persecution.
Read MoreâŠhe forged links with the Workersâ Defense Committee, which protected anticommunist labour activists in Poland from government persecution.
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